Improvement in bag-ties



S. A. BARTLETT.

I Bag-Ties. 510153472. 'PatentedJu|y-28,1874.

mxiglllilllllll" UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

SANFORD A. BARTLETT, OF BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

IMPROVEMENT IN BAG-TIES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 153,472, dated July 28, 1874; application filed June 30, 1874.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, SANFORD A. BARTLETT, of Boston, in the county of Suffolk, State of lvlassachusetts, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Bag'lies, of which the following is a description sufiiciently full, clear, and exact to enable any person skilled in the art or science to which my invention appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawing, forming a part of this specification, in which Figure l is a view showing my improved bag-tie unfastened, and Fig. 2 a view showing the same fastened.

Like letters of referen ce indicate corresponding parts in the different figures of the drawing.

My invention relates more especially to that class of bag-ties which are designed to be attached to the bag; and consists of a tie formed of a single piece of wire bent in a novel manner, and provided with a strap, as hereinafter more fully set forth and claimed, by which a simpler, cheaper, and more effective device of this character is produced than is now in common use.

In Fig. 1, A is the buckle; l), the strap, and O the bag. The buckle is made of a single piece of wire, bent as shown in Fig. 1, the rigid tongue or hook B and spring-guard (I being formed of the same wire which composes the body of the buckle.

To attach the tie to the bag a small loop or plait, w, is taken up on one side of the bag near the top. This plait is pierced, and the tongue B passed through it. The strap D, which is provided with a small hole near one end for that purpose, is then passed on over the tongue and held in position by the part 61, which acts as a spring-guard to retain the strap in place on the buckle, as well as to prevent the buckle from becoming detached from the bag.

In fastening the bag with myimproved tie, the loose end of the strap, which is provided with the hole F, is carried around the neck of the bag, passed under the body or loop of the buckle a, and hooked over the tongue B, the loop acting to retain the strap upon the tongue, as shown in Fig. 2.

It will be obvious that the tie may be used without being attached to the bag, and that a string may be employed instead of the strap without departing from the spirit of my invention.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim is-- The bag tie described, consisting of the buckle A, having the tongue B, and springguard cl, composed of a single piece of wire, and provided with the strap D, substantially as and for the purpose specified.

SANFORD A. BARTLETT.

Witnesses:

O. A. SHAW, H. E. METGALF. 

